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Drop a basketball with backspin from a great enough height, and something rather interesting happens. In the video below, Veritasium’s Derek Muler explains the Magnus effect, and why the phenomenon can cause a ball with even a little spin to swerve so dramatically from its expected path.

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A day after we caught a glimpse of the best photo we've seen yet of Pluto, NASA has released an even closer shot of the dwarf planet: Behold the image above. In a press conference today, the team behind NASA's New Horizons probe gave more information...

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How often do you get to see a life-size pegasus? This majestic Friesian horse received an awesome clip job giving him a stunning pair of black wings which he wears so well that we keep waiting for him to take flight. 

Suitable for a flight to Asgard.

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NASA’s New Horizons probe dazzled the world with a detailed photo of Pluto today, but another probe has been beaming back stunning shots of space for over a decade already. The Cassini space probe has captured its fair share of eye-popping photos since launching in 1997 and arriving in Saturn’s orbit in 2004.

Here’s a collection of some of Cassini’s most remarkable photographs. Many of them were compiled by Reddit user I_Say_I_Say, and others were featured here before or obtained from NASA’s website:

You can find a massive collection of Cassini’s photos in the mission gallery on NASA’s website.

Constantly seeing your cat's anus is just part of being a pet owner. Eventually, you sorta get used to your cat's butt hole staring back at you every time they offer their behind for a good pet.

But now cat owners, you don't have to anymore, thanks to the Twinkle Tush, a necklace-like accessory that hides your cat's exposed butt with a jewel

Twinkle Tush is very obviously a gag gift, and we should stress that you should never put this on your cat, but if you did want to hide your cat's rear end, this privacy jewel would work perfectly — and it only costs $6. Read more...

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Mi Tulip of Lou Lou P’s Delights in Leeds, West Yorkshire UK crafts wonderful baked goods and sweet edibles that reflect a wickedly clever sense of humor and a general sense of fun. Such examples include an alien bloodily emerging from a macaron, a sumptuous catloaf made from bread, a naked mole rate made from sugar, organs made from macarons and a naked Burt Reynolds lying atop an eclair.

Explore all that is beautiful in cake. Full of gorgeosity, quirkiness and charm my cake designs will enchant you and their taste excite you.

Sugar Naked Mole Rat

Catloaf

Jaws

Anatomical Macarons

Trotters

Mini Marzipan Moss Piglet

images via Lou Lou P’s Delights

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Tattoo Artist Houston Patton and Creative Director Dagny Fox, collectively known as Thieves of Tower, have developed a wonderfully unique style with original and amazing black ink tattoos that are meant to take clients back to “a time of darkened beauty seen within his lines”. Particularly striking are the tattoo that tell the story over the course of two limbs, such as those pictured.

images via Thieves of Tower

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Gawker's Jesus Diaz points us to this bangin' video charting the escape route of noted Sinaloa drug cartel boss Chapo Guzmán, with a narco-corrido soundtrack.

Turn on subtitles to see the translation of the "narcocorrido" about the escape. Witness the moment of the escape and the amazing tunnel (4921 feet long, with a ventilation system, electric illumination, and motorized carts) that El Chapo took to get out of the prison of El Altiplano, in Mexico.

The tune you're hearing is "El Chapo Otra Fuga Más" by Lupillo Rivera.

For Guillaume Amat's “Open Fields” project he placed a mirrored stand in various landscapes, reflecting the opposing environment back within the image to create a double interpretation of the surrounding scene. These reflections contain dark figures against bright fields, homes in barren landscapes, bits of foliage contained within stretches of industry, and even a horse that pops into the frame.

Each image is taken with a 4×5 inch camera, the included mirror measuring 31.5 x 47.2 inches. Amat wanted to concentrate on the double interpretation of the landscape seen outside and within the mirror, working on the concept of territory as space.

Independent curator and writer Paul Wombell compared this series to the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice saying, “With the use of the camera and a mirror Guillaume Amat has made photographic images that simultaneously look forward and backwards. They create a strange dreamlike landscape where buildings and figures float in the center of the picture and suggest that he has two sets of eyes, both at the front and back of his head. Orpheus would have been impressed.”

Amat lives and works in Paris where he mostly focuses on long-term projects to produce cohesive photographic narratives existing somewhere between documentary and poetry. (via vjeranski)

Comedian Jeff Wysaski of Obvious Plant recently placed a series of funny but ultimately not very helpful shopping tips around a grocery store. The tips give shoppers advice on things like having more fun while shopping, making breakfast more “metal”, and even how to burn some extra calories at checkout.

photos via Obvious Plant

Traditional ultrasound allows doctors to see patients' hearts, but those photos are nowhere as detailed as they would like. Now, GE Healthcare has developed advanced software called "cSound" for its new cardiovascular ultrasound machines that can ren...

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I'm intrigued but a little baffled by architect Stefan Hitthaler's Corpus Intra Morus, spotted over at Arch Daily.


[Photo: Harald Wisthaler]

Simply put, it is a cover and frame over an old building, "the gunpowder tower" in Bruneck, in South Tyrol’s Puster Valley.

[Photo: Christof Theurer]

If the tower looks a little odd – shinier in some places – it is because it was refashioned from its before state (image via Google Street View):


According to Hitthaler and Ulrich Leitner, Institut für Erziehungswissenschaft Universität Innsbruck, who apparently worked on the project as well:

The tower has become the conduit of a two-sided exploration of the relationship between the human being & the wall: on the one hand an architectural structure permits the merging of human beings with the tower, captured as they are in photographic representations and blown up into a large format on a substrate. Simultaneously, a scientific search is being undertaken to detect the traces of the trails of bodies and their objects in the given spaces. Art and science thus blur the boundaries between human beings and matter, to the point of shifting it completely into the narrative form.

Baffling, but nevertheless a pretty cool melding of architecture, art and history.

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The creative folks at the Superfi Blog recently made Star Wars Bands, a fantastic series of parody album covers that mix all sorts of famous bands with clever Star Wars puns. Taylor Swift becomes Taylor Sith, Lady Gaga is portrayed as Lady Jarjar, and more. The entire collection of parody albums are available to view online at the Superfi Blog.

Tupacca – All Jediz on Me

Lady JarJar – The Shame

Taylor Sith – 1977

R2DMC feat. Aerosith – Ewok This Way

JABBA – Gold (Greatest Hutts)

images via Superfi Blog

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If there’s one thing we can’t get enough of on Colossal it’s zoetropes, a filmless animation technique that relies on a rotating sequence of images or objects that’s photographed or displayed with a strobe light to create the illusion of motion. We’ve seen a few different takes on the medium from chocolate to 3D printing to ceramics to my all-time favorite the turntable phonotrope. For his degree project at the ANU School of Art in Australia, digital artist Elliot Schultz devised his own method: the Embroidered Zoetrope.

The 2013 installation involved the creation of 10″ discs embroidered with sequences of images that fit on standard turntables. Each piece was displayed with a standard strobe light that effectively brought the animation to life. The precision of the machine embroidery coupled with the texture of thread makes these really special to watch. He shares about the project:

Inspired by the work of Alexandre Alexeieff and Claire Parker, I aimed to guide my production process indirectly through the limitations afforded by alternative media. Their invention, the pin screen, was used as the sole medium in the production of six short films, and shaped the outcome of their work. In response, I have designed and embroidered animated sequences onto discs, similar to the Phenakistokope, Zoopraxiscope and Stamfer Disc layouts. This repurposing of media introduced strict parameters, namely spatial, tonal and temporal, and has greatly informed all stages of my process.

Watch the video above to see Schultz’s animations in action, and you can see a nicely presented project view of the embroidered zoetrope over on Behance.

For cyclists, the road can be a nasty place to be at night, so we're all for technologies that can help draw drivers' attention in order to reduce the number of accidents. The latest of such attempt is the Lumos helmet, which not only comes with turn...

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Carpet Surfing

Office Space version

This collection of funny desktop backgrounds beats up on the Internet Explorer experience in amusing ways. At this point there is more than one browser and plenty of other software on which to focus our frustration, thus one could actually replace its icon with many. The creativity of the joke is ultimately what wins. 

Beaker's browser recoil

Created by Artori Design, these fun metal bookshelves give the impression a stealthy superhero is saving your books from certain doom. The sideways version uses a magnet to harmlessly attach the end of the books, while the other model is a wall-mounted floating shelf that gives the impression a caped crusader is giving your books a boost from below. The shelves are currently available through Designboom. Suggestion to Artori: a lot of my favorite book superheroes are women.

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Paper-cutting artist Maude White (previously) continues to astound us with her painstaking illustrations cut from single sheets of paper. Limited to only negative and positive space, she explores poetic compositions of line and shape as she renders each piece with a knife. White is currently working on a series of blooms as part of an upcoming exhibition at Buffalo Arts Studio, and if you want to learn a bit more about her process she recently did an interview over on Block Club.